Yes Men Spread Spoof NY Times and Proclaim End of Iraq War
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | 1 Comment »New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo. November 12, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TIMES EDITION BLANKETS U.S. CITIES, PROCLAIMS END TO WAR Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while ...
Reverse Graffity Actions by Greenpeace
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Energy & Climate | 3 Comments »Over the last months, Greenpeace activists have done several actions using reverse graffiti techniques. It seems the usage of clean or reverse graffiti is still on it's rise, since it is a technique both harmless for the environment and for ...
Communism didn’t Work, Capitalism doesn’t Work, You Work
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | No Comments »Shame on me! I just missed joining Blog Action Day, where thousands of bloggers joined to write about poverty. Sitting in a funky train to Frankfurt, no time to be busy with this issue, ignoring the beggars and homeless as ...
Flashmobs in Hotpants to Fight Poverty
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »It's activism. It's marketing. It's sexy. It's fighting poverty. Pants to Poverty organizes Hotpants Flashmobs where young people gather on the streets in organic, fair trade underpants to fight poverty. Genious actions, they knwo what they are doing. And the ...
Creative Activism Party in Berlin
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | 1 Comment »Just wanted to tip my Berlin readers to the release party of creative activism magazine Mašta: Mašta is a Berlin based global magazine for creative activists, "a collection of best practices of creative activism, where the mind of the artist merges ...
Inconvenient Truths in The Lowlands
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Politics | 1 Comment »Not all that long ago Al Gore predicted that The Netherlands will partly disappear in the sea due to climate change. But when one looks at the actual developments in the lowland country, the message of climate change did not ...
Green Graffiti made of Moss
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Design, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »The artist Anna Garforth developed green graffiti made of Moss as part of her art project Mossenger. As glue she uses a mix of yogurt and sugar. "The Moss acts as a healthy alternative for spraying paints, eventually it ...
The Yes Men Prepare for US Elections
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Politics | No Comments »The Yes men, known for their sublime actions where they pretend to be representatives of corporations on meetings of WTO, are preparing an action targeted at the US elections with the topic of the Iraq war. To realize their action, ...
Meeting with Ecofashionjunkies
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »Just met up with Philipp from Ecofashionjunkies, a fresh new blog on ecofashion and quite promising. We had a lunch at the organic, vegetarian snackbar Yellow Sunshine around the corner of my house. Ecofashionjunkies is a fresh new blog on ecofashion ...
Greenpeace Goes Grey!
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | 1 Comment »We all know Greenpeace from their mediagenic actions against Walehunting and other environmental crimes. Over the last couple of years, the activist multinational has gone a new way with some own business initiatives where they take responsibility for the issues ...
Berlin Citizens Discover Direct Democracy
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog | No Comments »Mediaspree Versenken from Pappsatt A group of activists against privatisation and gentrification gathered the highest amount of signatures so far for a public voting in Berlin for their call to have the Berlin river Spree for everyone. While the local ...
Carrotmobs: Flashmobs of Consumer Power
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Consume | 1 Comment »Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo. If shops and corporations do not react fast enough on our demand for ethical products and environmental responsibility, we will organize our consumer power to demand it. Well, that's what is really happening, ...
Sounds of Sirens: How to Link Consumerism and Holistic Principles?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Consume, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »For some time I met Lars Schmidt, together with his partner Steffa Roth running their project Art & Ecology Education. Because of the name I guessed there was a connection with Grass Routes, as we work with creativity and sustainability ...
Wave of Social, Green and Political BarCamps from Berlin to Tibet
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Web | No Comments »When I first heard about BarCamps, I had a clear image of some bearded men with beers, hanging around a campfire. Very campy, but the idea of a BarCamp is hanging around for more reasons than campfire and beer. BarCamps are ...